Joe Harris, Karl Kesel (w)
Matthew Dow Smith, Loston Wallace (a)
Carlos Valenzuela (c)
The holidays have brought together all the X-Files agents
for the very first time! Walter Skinner hosts a get-together for his most
special agents, but the festive night turns tense when someone—or
something—comes down the chimney! In a second story, the X-Files team of the
1940s—Bing Ellington and Millie Ohio from the Year Zero miniseries—investigate
a potential Communist saboteur, but discover an impossible creature—a gremlin!
Corto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn
Hugo Pratt (w & a & c)
This book, the first of 12 volumes, launches the
definitive English language edition of Hugo Pratt’s masterpiece, presented in
the original oversized B&W format with new translations made from Pratt’s
original Italian scripts.
Long before the term “graphic novel” entered the popular
lexicon—ten years before Will Eisner’s A Contract with God—Hugo Pratt pioneered
the long-form “drawn literature” story. Corto Maltese set the standard for all
adult adventure comics in Europe. By the mid-1970s Corto was the continent’s
most popular series and Hugo Pratt the world’s leading graphic novelist.
Hugo Pratt’s peripatetic sailor was featured in a series
of 29 stories. The adventures of this modern Ulysses are set during the first
30 years of the 20th Century in such exotic locales as Pratt’s native Venice,
the steppes of Manchuria, the Caribbean islands, the Danakil deserts, the
Amazon forests, and the waves of the Pacific.
Corto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn collects the
first six inter-connected short stories Pratt created in France in the early
1970s: “The Secret of Tristan Bantam,” “Rendez-vous in Bahia,” “Sureshot
Samba,” “The Brazilian Eagle,” “So Much for Gentlemen of Fortune,” and “The
Seagull’s Fault.”
Peter Bagge, Dean Haspiel, Various (w & a)
Mark Pingitore (c)
Remember mullets and teased bangs? Stonewashed denim
jackets and jeans? Well, not everything about the ‘80s was lame, because that’s
when the Garbage Pail Kids ruled the world! Those irreverent, satirical
stickers quickly became a pop-culture phenomenon, but they never had their own
comic book... until now! In the spirit of the avant-garde cartoonists and
humorists who fathered these miscreants, a new generation of alternative-comics
creators has lent their unique talents to bring the Garbage Pail Kids into the
wacky world of comics— just in time for their 30th birthday!
Duane Swierczynski (w)
Nelson Daniel (a)
Mark Sexton (c)
“Mega-City Manhunt, part 2”— Everybody wants Dredd. Chief
Justice Cal wants Dredd erased, since he's the only one who knows the truth
about the Council of Five. SJS Judge Verrity wants Dredd to answer for his
crimes in Sector One. Judge Anderson wants Dredd to stay alive long enough to
figure out how she'll get her body back. And Dubbie Cruz—an unfortunately Judge
Cal lookalike—wants Dredd to leave him alone. Everybody wants Dredd. You'll
want Dredd, too. Specifically, Judge Dredd #26. Add it to your pull list now, punk!
Matt Smith (w)
Carl Critchlow (a)
Matt Haley (c)
In an all-new adventure from Cassandra Anderson’s early
days in Psi-Division, writer Matt Smith and artist Carl Critchlow present “King
of the Six Sectors.” The theft of Cursed Earth artifacts has led Anderson from
the mutant-filled swamplands near Texas City back to the criminal underground
of Mega-City One, but nothing could prepare her for what’s coming next!
Katie Cook (w)
Andy Price (a)
Price, Agnes Garbowska (c)
All plans to stop the Cattle Rustler gang have failed!
Hope seems to be in short supply in the small town of Canter Creek. Luckily a
new sheriff is in town… Applejack!
Tom Waltz (w)
Tristan Jones (a & c)
The terrifying finale of the all-new tale spinning
directly out of the hit 2012 video game Silent Hill Downpour and featuring
fan-favorite characters from Silent Hill lore! Anne Marie Cunningham's deadly
journey through Silent Hill comes to a haunting end. Written by Downpour writer
Tom Waltz.
Erik Burnham, Tom Waltz (w)
Dan Schoening (a & c)